How do you get people to not fast-forward through your opening credits? Well, Showtime's "Weeds" has a different artist or band perform the theme song each week. (The Oregonian's own pop music critic Luciana Lopez told you last month that Portland bands the Shins and the Decemberists would be doing so this season.) The song, "Little Boxes," was performed by its writer and original singer during the first season's open credits. Thanks to commenter aaronwe for pointing out my gaffe in not mentioning this originally.

So far this season, we've had Randy Newman for the premiere:

My favorite so far, Angelique Kidjo, for the second episode:

Kinky for episode 3:

Donovan for episode 4:

And last night? Billy Bob Thornton, who sort of killed it. In a good way. (I can't find it on YouTube yet; please tell me if you find it there. But I'm also having no luck getting that "Click to Play" button to work, so ... you will have to catch a repeat of the episode, or wait until someone puts it on YouTube if you want to hear it.) How appropriate, though, that a band called the Boxmasters would sing "Little Boxes"?

You can hear the Shins' version and the Decemberists', though, although I have no idea when either of them are set to air. (I think the Shins' version is a little too straight down the middle, but the Decemberists is sort of eery and cool.)

You can hear a few others at that official companion site as well. And you definitely don't have to be a fan of the show to enjoy good music.